HTML forms: display a text in an input (textarea)

Question

I have a form that I pre-fill with my database data. It is working perfectly for all my input. I have a text (that I enter in my database using a textarea). But when I am using the following the text does show in the text area (if I change it to input it is working but I do not have several lines and column allowed with textarea)

<textarea 
    rows="4"
    class="form-control" 
    name="roster_description" 
    id="roster_description" 
    placeholder =
        <?php if ($description_roster){
                echo '"'.$description_roster.'"'; 
            } else {
                echo "";
            }?>>
</textarea>

any ideas?

this is a shot in the dark, remove that newline, and put it in one line instead: ?>></textarea> maybe related stackoverflow.com/questions/10585759/… — Kevin
– Kevin, Commented Nov 25, 2014 at 13:53
This code should work. Can you post the code before the textarea definition? — S.Pols
– S.Pols, Commented Nov 25, 2014 at 13:57
@uʍopǝpısdn $description_roster is a string 'a team composed of players' — Raphael_b
– Raphael_b, Commented Nov 25, 2014 at 14:03
Not a solution, but you might want to escape the description first, in case you have a description like Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. — cloudfeet
– cloudfeet, Commented Nov 25, 2014 at 14:04

sebbzzz · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-25 14:01:38Z

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Just tested it and it works:

<textarea 
    rows="4"
    class="form-control" 
    name="roster_description" 
    id="roster_description" 
    placeholder = "<?php if ($description_roster) echo $description_roster;?>">
</textarea>

edited Nov 25, 2014 at 14:01

answered Nov 25, 2014 at 13:52

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S.Pols Over a year ago

This isn't the problem. Also the question had a check if description_roster exists which is a good thing. So your solution is worser then the question self.

cloudfeet · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-25 16:55:57Z

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The issue was that your statement:

echo "";

doesn't produce quotation marks - it produces the empty string. What you want is to replace this with:

echo '""';

which will produce placeholder=""> instead of placeholder=>.

answered Nov 25, 2014 at 16:55

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L.Butz · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-13 14:58:07Z

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Ok no clue why but the following is working:

<textarea class="form-control" id="description_roster" 
          name="description_roster" rows="4"
          placeholder=<?php
                         if ($description_roster){
                             echo '"'.$description_roster.'"';
                         } else {
                             echo "";
                         }
                       ?>
></textarea>

Thanks to those who had a look

edited Nov 13, 2018 at 14:58

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answered Nov 25, 2014 at 14:07

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